Sometimes it leaves red raw scars that will eventually fade into silver marks- blemishes that will never leave you. Someday the memories will be in loud colour but sometimes you might remember it in muted black and white –it doesn’t matter what shade the memories are; you will never forget.
Once a victim of rape, your life is irrevocably changed, but the life of your assailant remains unmoved. The harsh reality is that the UK’s justice system is in favour of rapists and not the victims. I know this sounds like a heavy assertion but the truth is that the victim is likely to face a lifetime of torment whereas the oppressor gets off more lightly. According to the Guardian, Ministry of Justice figures shows that rape sentence now holds the average of 8 years. 8 years! Do you think this fleeting sentence is enough, enough to compensate for the mental, physiological and physical trauma that a victim has to go through? Well, personally I think this leniency is disrespectful, deplorable and reprehensible! While rapists are able to
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freely walk away, rape victims can't therefore, rape victims are 13 times more likely to have attempted suicide . Why is that someone who kills someone’s desire to live, is allowed to roam around with their cloak of invincibility whereas as the victim has to hide under a blanket of darkness? Harsh punishments result in lower crime rates.
A punishment for rape in some countries is death. For example, in Saudi Arabia rapists are beheaded in public and their head is stitched to their bodies before they are buried in the grave. While this is an extreme example of retribution, it is clearly in place to act as a deterrent as potential rapists understand that rape is an unacceptable crime that the state has zero tolerance for. Whilst I do not condone the death of rapists, I do recognise that the anti-rape culture sends a strong message to those who violate women and men. If you are thinking that's a bit extreme, then how does it make you feel knowing compared to the UK, Saudi Arabia is among the first 10 nations that have the lowest per capita rape rates, and Saudi Arabia stands first among those 10 nations? Severe forms of punishments heavily restrict people from raping and provide a safer environment for everyone in that
society. I am not asking the UK’s justice system to do exactly what Saudi Arabia does. I am aware that our society, being an increasingly liberal society, will not be able to accept this sort of justice. However, the justice system must come up with a form of punishment that deters people from raping and stops them reoffending. Maybe life imprisonment. Maybe a punishment to stay behind bars until their victim is able to resume to their daily life. Maybe something that brings justice for the victim, not for the system! Our priority must be to protect the victim and never the rapist. We know it is hard enough for the victims to rebuild their lives but where they do, we must do everything we can to ensure the release of the rapist never happens especially when early release has been linked to the victim spiralling back into a life of torment, while the oppressor will be free or even able to reoffend. In fact, there have been many cases where once the oppressors have served their merciful punishment, they have gone back to rape the same victim or destroy the life of another unsuspecting victim. An example of this is Richard Ewin, who should have been serving 18 years behind bars but was let free two-thirds of the way through his sentence. After his release, he raped two women and sexually assaulted the third and also proudly confessed to his victims that he was a ‘professional rapists’. Why did Ewing have to rape 3 other women to be convicted for a life imprisonment? Why was the justice system waiting for him to re-offend? Moreover, one of the victims actually stated that ‘the probation service knew he was dangerous, and yet still he was allowed out to rape again.' This case reveals the justice system’s bias and even sympathy towards rapists, going as far as to disregard their atrocious actions. This is intolerable! I cannot imagine what the victim feels when they see their attacker back on the streets. I for one cannot think how I would battle against the betrayal of the justice system. However, I know that I will not sleep until I know my friends, my family and I will never have to fear being failed by the justice system. I believe everybody can support the victims and as a society we are dominant and strong enough to bring the change of justice, in the justice system! But the only way we can do this is by speaking up and confronting the justice system. If not for those that have suffered, if not for us, then for those we love. If the justice system was unprejudiced, if the justice system was impartial, if the justice was equitable, then so many rape victims would get the justice they deserve.
Different countries have been known to deal with crime in different ways, some believe that we (Americans) should deal with criminals in a more serious and physical manner. In the article “Rough Justice A Caning in Singapore Stirs Up a Fierce Debate About Crime and Punishment” by Alejandro Reyes, it talks about how we should have more severe and physical punishment inside and outside of the U.S. After a teenage boy vandalizes a car in singapore. While in the editorial “Time to Assert American Values,” the writer attempts to persuade us and into thinking that the teenage boy, Michael Fey should not have been caned after vandalizing a car. After carefully analyzing the two texts, the reader realizes that the article “Rough Justice” has the
In countries such as Russia and Japan, it is clear that the threat of capital punishment which looms over society does act as a deterrent in serious criminal offences. In fact most countries around the world who utilize the penalty have the lowest
The merits of both the adversarial and inquisitorial system will be explored throughout this paper. The Australian rule of law best describes as all law should be applied equally and fairly. The five vital operations of the rule of law includes fairness, rationality, predictability, consistency, and impartially. The adversarial system adopts these operations by having a jury decide on the verdict and the judge being an impartial decision maker. In contrast, the inquisitorial system relies heavily on the judge. This can result in abusive power and bias of the judge when hearing evidence and delivering verdicts. The operations of the rule of law determine why the rule of law is best served by the adversarial system in Australia.
For years now, incarceration has been known to be the center of the nation’s Criminal Justice Center. It’s no secret that over time, the criminal justice center began experiencing problems with facilities being overcrowded, worldwide, which ended up with them having to make alternative decisions to incarceration that prevent violence and strengthen communities. These new options went in to plan to be help better develop sentencing criminal offenders.
Throughout the years there has been limitless legal cases presented to the court systems. All cases are not the same. Some cases vary from decisions that are made by a single judge, while other cases decisions are made by a jury. As cases are presented they typically start off as disputes, misunderstandings, or failure to comply among other things. It is possible to settle some cases outside of the courts, but that does require understanding and cooperation by all parties involved. However, for those that are not so willing to settle out of court, they eventually visit the court system. The court system is not in existence to cause humiliation for anyone, but more so to offer a helping hand from a legal prospective. At the same time, the legal system is not to be abuse. or misused either.
The media plays a big role in shaping the people’s perceptions about the court system. Without media we would remain uneducated to the occurrences outside our social groups. Media and especially news coverage provide us with important point of contact with the rest of society. In debunking popular myths about our court system we will look at the “facts” (the truth, the actual event, a real thing). With a myth being based upon “exaggeration” or heightening of “ordinary” event in life. Myths become a convenient mortar to fill gaps in knowledge and to provide answers to questions social science either cannot answer or has failed to address. Myths tend to provide the necessary information for the construction
The status of the criminal justice system in Europe during the 1700s was the product of long tradition of aristocracy. An aristocracy government is one in which land is owned by particular families and is passed down through the generations of a family line. The monarch of the region grants titles and powers to the privileged classes, who in return keep order within their land and swear loyalty to the monarch. Property and power in an aristocracy were the privileges of birth alone and being merit was simply irrelevant. Their lives circled around maintaining, while attempting to expand, their wealth and power. Historically, as a higher class among others, aristocrats were known to be negligent towards the poor. To where they were prone to appoint
For my research paper I decided to observe at the North Justice Center in Fullerton, CA for the morning session. My goal entering there was to watch the process of a criminal trial since I felt that would be the most interesting and would allow me the opportunity to witness all the working parts of our justice system in action. While waiting for the criminal trial to open its doors and start, I managed to come across a post- arraignment court, where I was able to watch a different side of our criminal justice system. This is the side that enforces the punishment and makes sure that restitution is paid for whatever crime was committed. By far the most interesting thing I took from this experience was the differences in how the judges conducted themselves in their courtrooms and the amount of discretion that they were allowed to use. For this paper I will be going over what I observed in both the post-arraignment court and the criminal trial and analyze my findings in a sociological context.
The American Court System is an important part of American history and one of the many assets that makes America stand out from other countries. It thrives for justice through its structured and organized court systems. The structures and organizations are widely influenced by both the State and U.S Constitution. The courts have important characters that used their knowledge and roles to aim for equality and justice. These court systems have been influenced since the beginning of the United State of America. Today, these systems and law continue to change and adapt in order to keep and protect the peoples’ rights.
The death penalty should fit the crime and in extreme cases, extreme measures should determine the course of justice. Some murders, like the intentional murder of a rape victim, are so depraved that capital punishment is the only proportional sentence available. The constitution itself recognizes that punishment must be proportional to the offense. The Supreme Court also recognizes that in order for the public to have confidence in the criminal justice system. There must be a belief that the punishment must fit the crime. With the person who committed the rape to get the death penalty allows for punishment to fit the crime. Committing a rape is a very serious and offensive crime. Those people who commit this crime should be punished harshly.
Every country has a form of criminal justice system. This system consists in a different series of organizations that work together to defend, sentence and punish those that did not follow the law or have been involved in any type of crime. In most of the countries, the system is similar be-cause is based on law enforcement agencies, attorney generals, judges, courts of law and prisons. All of these organizations work together to contribute towards the better enhancement of the working cooperation within the criminal justice system. However, these procedures won’t al-ways be fully applicable in certain countries.
The death penalty honors human dignity by treating the defendant as a moral able to control his/her own destiny for good or bad behavior. I believe it is an asset to society. The death penalty should not be abolished because it will reduce crime rate, it will save us and the government money, and It helps our society.
The United States of America’s criminal justice system is defined as the system of law enforcement that is directly involved in apprehending, prosecuting, defending, sentencing, and punishing those who are suspected or convicted of a criminal offense. And while nothing is perfect, the goal of this system is to make sure every citizen is treated fairly and that justice is served. Over the years the United States has made a lot of changes to the way their law enforcement handles certain situations and offenses. These changes have come from learning experiences. For example the Miranda vs. Arizona case taught us that every person, guilty or not, needs to be read their rights before taken into custody because it is fair. A more modern topic that has constantly been changing the way our government and criminal justice system operates, is terrorism. Terrorism over the past two decades or so, has had a huge influence on the way our law enforcement goes about protecting us from threats. There have been new laws and acts created, new task forces
I also think that multiple rapists should be put to death. If they are given a chance to put their life together and they commit the same crime again then, rehabilitation was unsuccessful and they should be terminated. This may sound like a Nazi speaking of the Jews in the early 1930s, but they based the killing on a religion, not on a case by case basis, as we do in this country. Our legal system is ment to rid society of evil, and by killing the murderers and rapists it clears them out of the genetic pool and also gives an example to others of what not to do. Although it may seem cruel to systematically kill people based on one act in their life, it is justifiable because those people have the potential to kill again, and if they are going to hurt someone they should be kept from society.
Capital Punishment is the subject of heavy debate in the political world, with many arguing against and for it for very different reasons. In terms of effectiveness, Capital Punishment is one of the most effective punishments devised by man and has been used historically for as long as mankind has had laws and governing systems. On the other hand, Capital Punishment can be viewed as cruel and barbaric and no longer relevant in modern society and justice systems. However in a world where violence and inhuman deeds are becoming more and more common, would it be wrong to begin using more violent methods for dealing with these criminals? Overall more lives can be saved by the execution of those that are guilty of violent and inhumane crimes.